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Zusatztext “Great premise! and characters! and a wonderfully evocative setting! heavy with heat and suburban boredom! and the uneasy threat of not quite knowing what is going on. Really great.” Informationen zum Autor Susan Crawford is a four-time winner of the Atlanta Writers Club award for short fiction and poetry! and has had work published in THE SUN and SPECTRUM. She teaches creative writing at The Lou Walker Center in Atlanta and ESL at Georgia Piedmont College. This is her first novel. Klappentext Is murder on her mind-or is it all in her head? Dana is shocked when her next door neighbor Celia is brutally murdered and dismayed to realize that she was the last person to see Celia alive. To make matters worse! she is in the grips of a rapidly descending mania brought on by her bipolar disorder and she doesn't remember exactly what happened that afternoon... Zusammenfassung A stylish psychological thriller with the compelling intrigue of The Silent Wife and Turn of Mind and the white-knuckle pacing of Before I Go to Sleep —in which a woman suffering from bipolar disorder cannot remember if she murdered her friend. Dana Catrell is shocked when her neighbor Celia is brutally murdered. To Dana’s horror! she was the last person to see Celia alive. Suffering from mania! the result of her bipolar disorder! she has troubling holes in her memory! including what happened on the afternoon of Celia’s death. Her husband’s odd behavior and the probing of Detective Jack Moss create further complications as she searches for answers. The closer she comes to piecing together the shards of her broken memory! the more Dana falls apart. Is there a murderer lurking inside her . . . or is there one out there in the shadows of reality! waiting to strike again? A story of marriage! murder! and madness! The Pocket Wife explores the world through the foggy lens of a woman on the edge. ...
